What do You think about the "Justice Democrats"?

posted by Ed Winn | 13pt
February 09, 2017

Dear prof. Wolff, what are your thoughts on Justice Democrats? Could You speak about it on your monthly Democracy at Work talk? Leaving some links for your information. - Edwin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Democrats https://justicedemocrats.com/ https://www.quora.com/What-are-your-thoughts-on-the-Justice-Democrats/answer/Ed-Winn-4?srid=uGDib

Official response from Richard Wolffsubmitted

Long overdue, positive reconstruction of a much more genuine (than centrist Democratic Party of Clintons-Obama, etc.) opposition movement to what the Republican Party has become under the pressures of the Tea Party and now of the Trump phenomenon. My only concern is a hesitancy I detect to confront morethan the list of ills they identify and for which they offer positive alternatives/solutions. By moreI mean simply the capitalist system that underlies, supports, and sustains so many items on their list of social ills. The Cold War being mostly behind us and given the economic crisis of US and global capitalism as a system since 2007, millions are open to and interested in systemic criticisms and system alternatives. Thats why we in DemocracyatWork focus on the transition of enterprises' organization from hierarchical capitalist to democratic worker cooperative...as part of a democratization of the economy needed, in our view, to achieve and sustain precisely the sorts of social changes Justice Democrats favor.

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Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at UMass Amherst and a visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is also a co-founder and active contributor of his non-profit: Democracy at Work